The Nicodemus enterprise. [volume] (Nicodemus, Kan.) 1887-1887, 1887-09-07
SUMMARY OF TEE NEWS.


G. W. Wilkins, an extensive lumber dealer
of Pittsburg, Pa, has made al assignment.
Gen. Black, commissioner of pensions, is
seriously i'll at Weirs, New Hampshire, where
he is the guest of the veterans.
1t was determined that Jay Gould's grand
son should be named Kingdom Gould, the
first of which is Mrs. Gould's family name.
The owners of the fishing schooner Lydia
I. Crowell, of Beverly, Massachusetts,, have
given her up for lost with the crew OF fifteen
men.
Gravensteen & Peel, of New York, an
nounced an assignment on Thursday morn
ing. Liabilities were estimated at about Il, :
800, 900, with nominal assets about $780, 900 co.,
Discoveries of iron ore in paying quantities
have been made in Allamakee county and a
company has been formed at Rockford, H.,
with capital of 100000 to operate the
same.
Peter Gross, aged seventy-four, of East
New York, was arrested Tuesday morning for
the murder of his wife, Gertrude, aged sew
enty. The old man and his wife have always
been hard drinkers.
Owing to young operators falling asleep
and allowing freight train to pass his sta
ton, on the Chesapeake and Ohio road, Mon
day, collision occurred, and fifteen cars
were burned, but no one was killed.
At Morrowvllle, Pennsylvania, Tuesday
afternoon, while two men were repairing a
joint in tie main pipe, the gas ignited from a
lamp. An explosion which followed killed
one and seriously injured two others.
Rev. Fathers Ryan of Memphis, and
Bremen of New Orleans, have gone to New
York to present a memorial from southern
Catholics to Rev. Father McGlynn. The
paper expresses sympathy for DR.. McGlynn.
The reprieve of John Thomas Ross, who
was TO have been executed Friday at Balti-
more, reached the sheriff in time to stay the
execution. The reprieve was granted on the
recommendation of Judge Duffy, who passed
sentence on Ross.
The second section of the Cincinnati ex-
press, going west on the Pan Handle road.
jumped the track near Skelly's station Tues
day afternoon and was precipitated over an
embankment into the creek. Engineer George
Thompson was terribly scalded and will die.
| Several other train men were injured.
The cannon ball train on the Union Pacific
railway due at Dodge City Wednesday morn
ing at O'Clock, ran into the rear of a freight
train standing on the main line in the yard,
derailing and tearing into splinters the caboose
and three cars. Freight Conductor j. N.
Elliott, who was in the caboose, was fatally
injured.
There was large meeting of socialists at
Cooper union, New York, Monday evening.
called to denounce the action of the Henry
Georgeitcs. Speeches were made and resolu
lions adopted denounciEg George, his plat
form, and following. Every mention of his
name was the signal for cheers, Kisses.
groans, etc. red flag was carried into the
hall and waved from the platform amid great
applause and Kisses.
The assistant acknowledgement of the Grand
Army of New Hampshire has received returns
from fortY'six of the sixty-four Grand Army
posts In Connecticut, giving the vote In each
which Is advocated by the national encamp-
ment, being practically identical with the bill
that was vetoed by President Cleveland last
spring. The total vote in opposition in the
tCrty-six posts is forty-three, there being only
twenty-five negative votes recorded in fortv.
five posts. Thirty-six posts have voted unani.
mously for the measure.
Three hundred men employed at No. l slope
OF the susq1ehannc Coal company at Nant,-
coke, had narrow escape with their lives
Thursday. The men We're engaged in mining
coal IL the lowest vein of the mine when
great volume of water poured in. One of the
upper veins broke through into the gang-way
where the men were at work. By the aid OF
electric alarms the men all through the mine |
were made aware of the danger, and a rash |
was made for the opening and all succeeded |
In making their escape. Ninety mules rer.
lshed. The loss will be considerable.